Nautical doll.



T. W. SLNFORD.

NAUTIGAL DOLL.

APPLICATION FILED DBo.27,19o9.

Patented Apr. 12,1910.

THEODORE W. SANFORD', OF'ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

NAUTICAL DOLL.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 12, 1910.

Application filed December 27,1909. Serial No. 535,010.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE W. SAN- FORD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inNautical Dolls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention .relates to toys of the class designed to iioat in waterand consists of a hollow receptacle having the form and appearance of ,atoyk ure and which is partially filled with bir shot for the purpose ofenabling the center of gravity to be shifted and thereby cause thefigure to assume different postures while in the water.

The essential features of my invention are embodied in the doll setforth in the following description and accompanying drawing in whichlike reference characters refer to corresponding parts.

In the drawings: Figure l is a front view of the doll when floatin in anupright position, a portion thereof Iweing shown broken away; Fig. 2, afront view in a reversed position; Figs. 3 and 4 opposite side viewsrespectively in a reclininol position, and Fig. 5, a front view in a recining position.

My doll comprises the trunk A, head B, arms C C and legs D D. The entirebody is made in the form of a shell preferably out of a composition likehard rubber which may be readlly ierced to form an aperture in the topof t e head b for loading the same with a quantity of bird shot Afterthe loading operation the aperture may be sealedpup with cement andpainted over so that the finish of the toy will not be defaced by theloading operation. The quantity of shot is so measured and determinedfor each size and st le that when the figure is placed lin water t esame will be weighted to effect a predetermmed degree of immersion asshown by the Water line a--a in the sev- .eral figures. The gure mayalso be manipulated to cause it to assume different postures whileloatin in the water by causing the shot to be col ected and distributedin the various pockets and depressions along the lowermost side. Theseockets and 'depressions may be formed E outline or contour of the li re.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the shot 1s shown collected in the legs and feet C, Cand in the head B respectively thereby causing it to assume an y thenatural upright and reversed posture, in Figs. 3 and 4 the shot is showndistributed along the depressions formed in the back and front of thetrunk A thereby causing the figure to recline on its back and stomachrespectively, and in 5 the shot is collected in the arm B and in thedepressions along the side of the trunk A thereby causing the figure torecline on its side. By collecting the shot in the opposite arm`anddistributing it along the opposite side the figure will recline on itsopposite side. Besides the different postures above described the figuremay be floated in various other positions according to the manner inwhich the shot is distributed.

It will be observed that by using shot instead of a single weighted ballor the like I am enabled to effect a distribution of the weight so as torender stable and iXed the posture of the ligure when floating.

It will also be observed that the depressions and curves offered by thenatural configuration of the figure furnishes the necessary pockets andcrevices to catch and hold the shot so that the center of gravity may beshifted readily and the ligure become more or less stable when the shotcomes to rest.

In manipulatingthe ligure itis merely necessary to'give the same a shakeso as to shift theshot to any portion thereof desired. After afew trialsthe shot can be distributed with more or less accuracy.

While I have shown my invention as embodied in a doll yet the same maybe modified to comprehend other figures.

Having now described my invention what I claim and desire to protect byLetters Patent is:

A. toy ligure made out of a shell like material to form a hermeticallysealed recep-` tacle having depressions in its interior walls conformingto the natural configuration of the shell, the said rece tacle beingpartially filled with bird shot o such a weight as not to destroy thebuoyancy of the figure when floating in water and which when' shiftedwithin the rece tacle will become distributed and xed withm' saiddepressions and thereby change the center of gravity.

THEODORE W. SANFORD.

Witnesses: WALTER A. HOLDEN, ADA M. GESNER.

